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4th Qtr.9 Weeks Exam8th grade Chapters 12,13,14,15

  1. The U.S. involvement in ______helped bring the depression to an end because factories began operating at full production again.
  2. The stock market crashed on ______.
  3. The Plunge in stock market prices, call the ______, was the first event of a terrible economic depression.
  4. The main purpose of ______projects during the Great Depression was to give people jobs.
  5. The Grapes of Wrath written by ______told the story of Dust Bowl farmers who had been forced from their land.
  6. Roosevelt’s first programs were passed with little debate of Congress called the, ______.
  7. Okies were ______who left the ______in search of work in California and in other Pacific coast states.
  8. A federal agency called the ______regulated the stock market to make sure companies follow fair practices while trading stocks.
  9. A conservative in politics favors ______government controls and more ______freedoms in economics.
  10. ______was the person who most Americans blamed for the economic hard times that developed in the 1930’s.
  11. Why did Italy attack Ethiopia in 1935?
  1. Why did American automakers produce no cars between 1942 and 1945?
  2. Where did the Allied leaders believe they had to defeat the Axis before they could invade southern Europe?
  1. What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
  1. What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
  1. What was an important reason that the United States used atomic bombs against Japan?
  1. What was an example of the British and French policy of appeasement?
  1. What event plunged most of Europe into World War II?
  1. How did WWII affect economic opportunities for African Americans?
  1. How did the strategy of island hopping help the Allies in the Pacific?
  1. The following were all events of the Cold War:
  2. the U-2 incident
  3. the ______canal crisis
  4. the Berlin ______
  1. The economic prosperity after ______contributed to the baby boom.
  2. In the Cold War the U.S. became involved with an ______with the Soviet Union.
  3. The following are reasons for increased U.S. production of consumer goods in the 1950s:
  4. They were tired of the shortages and sacrifices of ______
  5. Shopping malls grew along with suburbs in the 1950s
  6. Americans were influenced by ______and advertising
  7. U.S. involvement in the Korean War is an example of the policy of ______.
  8. The ______promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom.
  9. Americans worried about ______because it showed that the Soviets had rockets that could hit the U.S.
  10. Harry Truman defeated ______in 1948 to win election as president.
  11. The sharp ______in the U.S. birthrate following WWII is called the baby boom.
  12. ______won the 1960 presidential election.
  13. Martin Luther King led a ______in Montgomery, Alabama.
  14. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned ______in public places.
  15. In the 1960s women faced discrimination in the following ways

-They could not get ______in many male-dominated occupations

-______women could not get credit on the same terms as men

-Women who became ______could be fired from their jobs

  1. Voting rights were important to the civil rights movement because ______power would help African Americans achieve the other goals.
  2. Native Americans opposed the government’s termination policy because it removed ______of their land.
  3. Nonviolent protest continued despite segregationist violence because

-Protesters wanted people to see them being ______

-Leaders hoped the violence would force the ______to act

-The incidents were a tactic to gain ______and ______

  1. 24th Amendment

-Outlawed the payment of a ______tax

-Led to voter registration ______

Led to the passage of the ______

  1. Goals of La RazaUnida for Mexican Americans in the 1970s included better ______and ______, better education and better ______.
  2. The following aspects of WWII energized the civil rights movement

-The internment of ______Americans

-The black migration to ______to work in industries

-The Nazi persecution of ______

  1. Betty Friedan helped shape the ______by writing The Feminine Mystique and was cofounder of ______.